US relations with North Korea may be "charged" but tensions in
the standoff remain political rather than military, the US chairman
of the joint chiefs of staff said Tuesday. "While the political
space is clearly very charged right now, we haven't seen a change
in the posture of North Korean forces," General Joe Dunford told
the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Qatar Airways announced Tuesday it has placed an order worth
more than $2 billion for six Boeing planes, which it said reflected
the airline's continued expansion in the United States. A statement
on the Gulf carrier's website said it had placed an order for two
Boeing 747-8 Freighters and four 777-300ERs. "The order, a sign of
the airline's continued expansion and contribution to the US
economy, adds to the airline's current fleet of nearly 100 Boeing
widebody airplanes and its more than 100 additional Boeing aircraft
on order," read the Qatar Airways statement.

Equifax Chairman and CEO Richard Smith has retired, following a
massive data breach at his company that exposed the personal
information of millions of people. The credit reporting agency
revealed earlier this month that hackers had accessed the
information of some 143m Americans – including some who had no idea
the company was collecting their data. The exposed information
included social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and even
credit card numbers.

The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings,
is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes
of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate
or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas.
Be sure to explore The Short List: College, The Short List: Grad
School and The Short List: Online Programs to find data that matter
to you in your college or graduate school search.

A British woman believed to have died after being mauled by
feral dogs in Greece may have been attacked by rabid wolves, a
coroner has said. The woman, named locally as Celia Hollingworth,
of Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, was reported missing on Thursday.
The 62-year-old disappeared while walking back to her accommodation
in Maroneia, in the northern part of the country, following a visit
to the nearby archaeological site of Mesimvria. Coroner
Nikolaos Kifinidis told The Times that the condition of remains
found on Saturday suggested she was not attacked by stray dogs. "It
seems like she may have been attacked by other wild animals, like
rabid wolves and jackals," he said. According to animal welfare
campaigners, there are an estimated one million stray dogs in
Greece, however wolves are common to the wooded region. Reports
suggest that Ms Hollingworth tried to contact her relatives in
London after being attacked, but lost signal on her phone. Celia
Hollingworth had been visiting the nearby archaeological site of
Mesimvria Credit: Hercules Milas/Alamy Several campaign
groups in the UK paid tribute to the retiree, who was described as
"dedicated" and "always optimistic". Ms Hollingworth worked as an
administrator at the University of Bristol and latterly dedicated
her time to raising money for causes including Syrian refugees. A
Wiltshire Police spokesman said: "We are working closely with
officers in Greece regarding the formal identification of the
deceased. "We are also working with colleagues from the Foreign
Office and supporting her next of kin at this difficult time." A
Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are in contact with Greek police
in relation to a British woman missing in northern Greece since
Thursday. "We are also providing consular assistance to her
family." The archaeological site of Mesimvria is is northern
Greece

The widow of a former NFL player who died while serving in the
U.S. Army issued a powerful response to President Donald Trump
using her husband’s name to criticize athletes who protest the
national anthem.

An officer in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's elite
military security force was found shot dead on Tuesday inside the
sprawling presidential compound, an official said. Major Harin
Gonzaga, 37, was found by his wife with a gunshot wound to the
heart inside his room in the Malacanang compound in Manila, said
Brigadier General Lope Dagoy, head of the Presidential Security
Group. The incident took place far from Duterte's residence inside
the compound, Dagoy said, adding that even other members of the
security force were unaware of the shooting until Gonzaga's wife
found the body.

A graphic video shows a Huntington Beach police officer
shooting a man seven times and killing him. The slain man was
identified as a Navy veteran who was suffering from mental health
issues, according to his family.

Hillary Clinton slammed the administration of President Donald
Trump for its “rank hypocrisy” following revelations that the
president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner had used a
private email account to conduct White House business.

WASHINGTON ― European diplomats warned the Trump administration
on Monday that Europe is prepared to block U.S. efforts to reimpose
international sanctions against Iran as long as Tehran continues to
comply with its obligations under the nuclear deal.

The parents of a gunman who shot and killed a Pennsylvania
trooper engaged in "psychological manipulation" of their son and
should be held responsible for the deadly ambush at a state police
barracks, according to a lawsuit filed by the trooper's widow.

Comedian Hasan Minhaj took aim at President Donald Trump at GQ
India’s Men of the Year Awards, proving once again that he can
throw some serious shade while looking classy AF. Minhaj was
in Mumbai on Friday to accept the publication’s International
Man of the Year award.

The typically hushed corridors of the Russell Senate Building
echoed with noise Monday as protesters, upset by the Senate
Republicans’ health care bill, descended on lawmakers’ offices to
let their displeasure be known ― part of several such
demonstrations around the U.S. Capitol. An initial crowd estimated
at around 100 protesters split into smaller groups once inside the
building, with each subgroup seeking out the offices of specific
senators, some of whom are positioned to cast critical swing votes
on the legislation. Capitol Police said in a statement they
responded to 13 locations in Senate and House office buildings and
as of late Monday afternoon had made 80 arrests.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders suggested Monday that
if NFL players who kneel during the national anthem at games are
doing so because of police brutality, they should protest the
officers instead of the song.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday signed into law
a controversial language bill which has sparked a standoff with
Romania and other east European states. The law states that
starting in September 2020, students will be taught exclusively in
Ukrainian from the fifth grade onwards, though they can still learn
their native languages as a separate subject. The legislation has
also raised hackles in Ukraine's sizable Hungarian and Polish
minorities.

On a more human level, it would be interesting to go back in
time to World Wars I and II, where a constant refrain of the
sailors and airmen who hunted subs was the sheer tedium of the
search. Hour after hour after hour of scanning the oceans, in the
hope that a needle in the haystack would reveal itself as a sonar
contact or a tiny periscope peeking above the surface. If nothing
else, farming out sub-hunting to the robots will make chasing subs
a bit less dull.

Rachel Maddow reports on Kurdish people voting on a referendum
to become independent from Iraq, a situation the U.S. has fought to
prevent but Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort
has been paid to promote.

Hundreds of activists gathered on Capitol Hill on Monday
morning in protest of Republicans’ latest beleaguered attempt to
repeal the Affordable Care Act, with many saying they’re prepared
to be arrested.

A few days after Hurricane Irma slammed into south Florida ―
while there were still tight travel restrictions and curfews in
place ― Bette Zirkelbach stocked an ambulance with supplies and
raced south.

A man rides his bicycle through a damaged road in Toa Alta,
west of San Juan, Puerto Rico. As Puerto Rico came into view below,
passengers on the JetBlue aid flight from New York fell silent as
the scale of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria became
apparent: the usually verdant mountains were brown and barren, and
the bright blue water offshore was dotted with large aid ships.
Before the plane touched town, that same crew member said “Puerto
Rico se levanta” – Puerto Rico rises up.

This is the mesmerizing image of a colorful Milky Way
shining down on Mount Fuji. Steve Lance Lee, 37, captured the sky
above the iconic mountain whilst on his honeymoon in Lake
Kawaguchiko, Japan. Mount Fuji is illuminated underneath the galaxy
of stars, creating an impressive landscape. (Caters News)

The U.S. Navy is seriously considering reactivating as many as
seven recently-decommissioned Oliver Hazard Perry-class
guided-missile frigates in order to quickly boost the size of the
U.S. Navy’s surface fleet. Rather than sending them into harm’s way
in the Middle East or into the crowded, dangerous waters of the
Western Pacific, the Navy would assign the 4,100-ton Perrys to the
Caribbean in “a limited drug-interdiction mode,” Spencer said.